Many applications rely on distributed databases. However, only few discovery methods exist to extract patterns without centralizing the data. In fact, this centralization is often less expensive than the communication of extracted patterns from the different nodes. To circumvent this difficulty, this paper revisits the problem of pattern mining in distributed databases by benefiting from pattern sampling. Specifically, we propose the algorithm DDSampling that randomly draws a pattern from a distributed database with a probability proportional to its interest. We demonstrate the soundness of DDSampling and analyze its time complexity. Finally, experiments on benchmark datasets highlight its low communication cost and its robustness. We also illustrate its interest on real-world data from the Semantic Web for detecting outlier entities in DBpedia and Wikidata.
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